ITTF and Twitter Announce Live Stream of 2018 Challenge Series

April 18, 2018
3:04 pm
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The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and Twitter today announced a deal to live stream the ITTF’s 2018 Challenge Series events to a global audience to complement ITTF’s current streaming platform itTV.

After a successful live stream of the Slovenia Open attracted over 200 000 viewers on Twitter table tennis fans can now look forward to a live stream of the marquee ITTF tournaments from Thailand Nigeria Belgium and Belarus live and free to Twitter users around the world.

The live streams of all Challenges Events matches will be available to logged-in and logged-out users on Twitter and connected devices via ITTF’s official Twitter account @ITTFWorld.

Twitter will also feature additional premium highlights from each tournament. Both the live streams and highlight clips on Twitter will also be available to content sponsors to include pre-roll advertising packages.

“Twitter is where the world of sport is happening every single day and we know from the conversations on Twitter that there is a growing appetite for elite table tennis ” said Maurizio BARBIERI Twitter’s Southeast Asia Head of Sports Partnerships. “Live streaming the ITTF Challenge Series events on Twitter makes it easier than ever for existing fans to watch the players in the world go head-to-head while also exposing the sport to an entirely new audience to help increase the growing popularity of table tennis.”

Matthew POUND ITTF Head of Media said: “The ITTF is thrilled to be partnering with Twitter to stream live the remainder of the ITTF Challenge Series events of 2018. Twitter will provide the perfect platform to complement ITTF’s current streaming platform itTV and introduce new fans to the sport of table tennis.”

The 2018 ITTF Challenge Events live stream on Twitter schedule is as follows:

Thailand Open Bangkok: 16-20 May Qualification days 16-17 May
Nigeria Open Lagos: 8-12 August Qualification days 8-9 August
Belgium Open De Haan: 23-27 October Qualification days 23-24 October
Belarus Open Minsk: 14-18 November Qualification days 14-15 November

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